OT: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Part III

[SnowblindNYR]

Governor Cuomo Issues Guidance on Essential Services Under The 'New York State on PAUSE' Executive Order

For purposes of Executive Order 202.6, "Essential Business," means:
1. Essential Health Care Operations, Including:

• research and laboratory services
• hospitals
• walk-in-care health facilities
• emergency veterinary and livestock services
• elder care
• medical wholesale and distribution
• home health care workers or aides for the elderly
• doctor and emergency dental
• nursing homes, or residential health care facilities or congregate care facilities
• medical supplies and equipment manufacturers and providers

Sounds like a no to me... but what do I know. Maybe causing strokes via vertebral artery dissections during neck manipulations is considered essential these days.

Thanks, I'm calling 311 right now.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Governor Cuomo Issues Guidance on Essential Services Under The 'New York State on PAUSE' Executive Order

For purposes of Executive Order 202.6, "Essential Business," means:
1. Essential Health Care Operations, Including:

• research and laboratory services
• hospitals
• walk-in-care health facilities
• emergency veterinary and livestock services
• elder care
• medical wholesale and distribution
• home health care workers or aides for the elderly
• doctor and emergency dental
• nursing homes, or residential health care facilities or congregate care facilities
• medical supplies and equipment manufacturers and providers

Sounds like a no to me... but what do I know. Maybe causing strokes via vertebral artery dissections during neck manipulations is considered essential these days.

The office is officially physical therapy and rehabilitation.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

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[KFC]

The office is officially physical therapy and rehabilitation.

My guess would still be not essential but I don't really know.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

My guess would still be not essential but I don't really know.

Thanks, she's a damn medical biller, she's not essential. I'm prepared to sue them if they make her come into work.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I don't move around that much anyway, just watch the carbs and sugar and you'll be fine.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

I don't move around that much anyway, just watch the carbs and sugar and you'll be fine.

well we're running out of the unhealthy, tasty food at my house anyway, soon its gonna be nothing but beans and lentils so that should help with the ol' diet.

 

[eco's bones]

It's going to take a while. Today in NYS around 5000 new cases added and over 15000 total. I don't think all of them are hospitalized or on ventilators but Cuomo says NYS has 6000 ventilators total. We can't afford to have more days like that or people are going to start dying in big numbers. Cuomo also said the federal govt. has about 12000 ventilators but he also added there are 50 states that are clamoring for them.

Forget about banks, forget about jobs, forget about the economy, forget about next hockey season. This state and quite possibly/probably this entire country is going to turn into one big gigantic hospital soon. People are going to have to put their social lives on hold and I mean really. No one should be out and about without a real good reason. We're really going to need that vaccine to get anything restarted again. At least that's the way it looks to me today.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

well we're running out of the unhealthy, tasty food at my house anyway, soon its gonna be nothing but beans and lentils so that should help with the ol' diet.

Carbs.

 

[Ola]

It's going to take a while. Today in NYS around 5000 new cases added and over 15000 total. I don't think all of them are hospitalized or on ventilators but Cuomo says NYS has 6000 ventilators total. We can't afford to have more days like that or people are going to start dying in big numbers. Cuomo also said the federal govt. has about 12000 ventilators but he also added there are 50 states that are clamoring for them.

Forget about banks, forget about jobs, forget about the economy, forget about next hockey season. This state and quite possibly/probably this entire country is going to turn into one big gigantic hospital soon. People are going to have to put their social lives on hold and I mean really. No one should be out and about without a real good reason. We're really going to need that vaccine to get anything restarted again. At least that's the way it looks to me today.

I saw a Finnish research that had actual infected persons being 20-30 times higher than the positive tests — in the countries that performs the most tests right now.

Since a majority of the persons infected have no to very mild symptoms that doesn’t sound unlikely.

If it is true for NY, things look pretty grim.

But, even if it took a while, last week and next week have still enabled massive actions to improve capacity. Italy is 4-5 weeks ahead of NY for example, and they are seeing the biggest impact right now.

 

[Irishguy42]

 

[SnowblindNYR]

There go the 5 Canadian summer Olympic athletes.

 

[Sensmileletsgo]

There go the 5 Canadian summer Olympic athletes.

Damn, Here I was thinking we might actually be able to win a bronze medal at the games.

 

[Fireonk]

Just to give a little positive news. My wife is a nurse in a big specialized NYC hospital and she had a couple patients tested today and both came back negative. So while the infected rate is obviously a lot higher than we know due to the lack of testing there are at least some people still in NYC who don't have it.

On the flip side, my sister who was tested 4 days ago STILL doesn't even have her results back yet. So the number of reported infected are going to really skyrocket just when all of these delayed results start lagging in along with all the testing that is now happening with a much quicker turn around. The numbers are going to look very very bad this next week.

 

[Irishguy42]

This....doesn't seem intelligent.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I don't know if I should be happy about all of the undiagnosed cases meaning a lower mortality rate or be scared about the spread.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

This....doesn't seem intelligent.

That is preposterous, absolutely f***ing preposterous. WTF? Is that some parody account? How do we know they'll even wear that shitty mask?

 

[eco's bones]

This....doesn't seem intelligent.

No it doesn't.

 

[Irishguy42]

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Now, my mom might be considered essential, this bullshit never ends. A f***ing medical biller is apparently essential.

 

[Irishguy42]

Now, my mom might be considered essential, this bullshit never ends. A f***ing medical biller is apparently essential.

In a time like this, they sure as hell are.

My mom is an audit nurse (the people who audit people like your mother) and she's still working, albeit from home.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

In a time like this, they sure as hell are.

My mom is an audit nurse (the people who audit people like your mother) and she's still working, albeit from home.

She's not working for an office that sees Coronavirus patients though. So I have no idea why they're essential, it's physical therapy and Rehabilitation.

 

[Irishguy42]

She's not working for an office that sees Coronavirus patients though. So I have no idea why they're essential, it's physical therapy and Rehabilitation.

Oh. Well in that case...not entirely sure.

The "essential" marker might just be a blanket tag for all medical facilities. Both hospitals and out-patient.

 

[Leetch3]

She's not working for an office that sees Coronavirus patients though. So I have no idea why they're essential, it's physical therapy and Rehabilitation.

the guidelines given out by the govt is so vague and half-assed that 95% of people could probably qualify as essential on a technicality...so you basically have to hope that individual companies have common sense (LOL) to let employees know what jobs are essential and which can be done remotely or whatever

 

[SnowblindNYR]

She said she can't work from home because she has physical paperwork. I said "they can scan it". She said no one will scan it. So it must not be that important then.